Re: [PATCH] drivers: Let several drivers depends on HAS_IOMEM for 'devm_ioremap_resource'

[Chen Gang]

On 07/20/2014 05:45 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 20.07.2014 10:38, schrieb Chen Gang:
>> On 07/19/2014 02:02 AM, Chen Gang wrote:
>>>> 2014-07-18 18:51 GMT+08:00 Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>:
>>>>> Am 18.07.2014 12:44, schrieb Chen Gang:
>>>>>> On 07/18/2014 03:35 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>>>>>> Am 18.07.2014 02:36, schrieb Chen Gang:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 07/18/2014 02:09 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Am 17.07.2014 12:48, schrieb Arnd Bergmann:
>>>>>>>>>> AFAICT, NO_IOMEM only has a real purpose on UML these days. Could we take
>>>>>>>>>> a shortcut here and make COMPILE_TEST depend on !UML? Getting random stuff
>>>>>>>>>> to build on UML seems pointless to me and we special-case it in a number of
>>>>>>>>>> places already.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If UML is the only arch without io memory the dependency on !UML seems
>>>>>>>>> reasonable to me. :-)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> For me, if only uml left, I suggest to implement dummy functions within
>>>>>>>> uml instead of let CONFIG_UML appear in generic include directory. And
>>>>>>>> then remove all HAS_IOMEM and NO_IOMEM from kernel.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Erm, this is something completely different.
>>>>>>> I thought we're focusing on COMPILE_TEST?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> COMPILE_TEST is none-architecture specific, but UML is. So in generic
>>>>>> include folder, if we're focusing on choosing whether COMPILE_TEST or
>>>>>> UML, for me, I will choose COMPILE_TEST.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If we're not only focusing on COMPILE_TEST, for me, if something only
>>>>>> depend on one architecture, I'd like to put them under "arch/*/" folder.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Especially, after that, we can remove all HAS_IOMEM and NO_IOMEM, nobody
>>>>>> has to think of them again. :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> And then we end up with a solution that on UML a lot of completely useless
>>>>> drivers are build which fail in various interesting manners because you'll
>>>>> add stubs for all kinds of io memory related functions to arch/um/?
>>>>> We had this kind of discussion already. You'll need more than ioremap...
>>>>>
>>>>> I like Arnd's idea *much* more to make COMPILE_TEST depend on !UML.
>>>>>
>>>
>>> That will let UML itself against COMPILE_TEST (but all the other
>>> architectures not).
>>>
>>> And if let COMPILE_TEST depend on !UML, can we still remove all
>>> HAS_IOMEM and NO_IOMEM from kernel? (I guess so).
>>>
>>> If we can remove them, we can send related patch firstly -- that will
>>> let current discussion be in UML architecture wide instead of kernel
>>> wide.
>>>
>>
>> Next, I shall:
>>
>>  - Remove HAS_IOMEM and NO_IOMEM from kernel, firstly.
> 
> This needs to be last, otherwise lot's of stuff will break.
> 

OK, thanks, that sounds reasonable to me.

>>  - Try to make dummy IOMEM functions for score architecture.
>>
>>  - Continue discussing with UML for it.
> 
> If you find sane dummy functions for both UML and score I'm fine with it.
> 

For me, what you said is necessary, tile and s390 also need dummy IOMEM
when !PCI.

So for me, I shall implement them in "include/asm-generic", and let uml,
score, tile and s390 use dummy IOMEM when they need.

Welcome any other members ideas, suggestions and completions.


Thanks.
-- 
Chen Gang

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